Celtic’s manager Neil Lennon has indicated the Scottish club will come back with an improved offer for the player, but on the other hand Pardew wants to take a look at giant goalkeeper in pre-season, to judge if he is good enough to become the Newcastle number one.

The favorite for that position is now Dutch International goalkeeper Tim Krul, who played twice for Holland in the summer, and turned in two great performances against Brazil in the 0-0 draw on his debut, when he was Man of the Match, and against Uruguay.

And we’re sure the current number one goalkeeper Steve Harper, the long time number two to Shay Given, will have his own ideas about holding onto the goalkeeper jersey.

Newcastle have in fact told Celtic he Fraser is not for sale, but the one thing Fraser doesn’t like the prospect of, is to spend a season on the bench at Newcastle, and he’d much rather play games, and it’s hard to criticize the lad for that attitude.

Forster has been on loan at Bristol Rovers, Norwich City and Glasgow Celtic over the last two seasons, and now has 97 first team appearances to his name, with a remarkable 55 clean sheets, although he has yet to play for the Newcastle first team, after being away for two successive seasons

Those clean sheets also came from playing for two successful sides – Norwich City in League One when they were promoted last summer and Celtic in the SPL, who don’t lose many games each season.

Norwich have since been promoted to the Premier League, and they have made some noises they may want to take Fraser on loan again next season, and that’s a possibility for the player, but a decision will have to be made quickly on that by Alan Pardew – if it’s going to happen.

Pardew also criticized the standard of play in the SPL, and it was hardly surprising he came in for withering criticism from those north of the border, who are more than a little passionate about their football – especially with Rangers and Celtic fans in Glasgow.

It could be that Fraser wants to make his move away from Newcastle this summer, but he still has three years left on his contract, which was extended when the great Alan Shearer was the manager back in 2009.

Forster divided the Celtic faithful last season and based on his performances I would take the money. The lad’s no where near the finished article and has no chance of being the Toon’s number one next season. We v other youngsters coming thro so let him go

Sunday sun mentioning N’Zogbia again. From N’Zogbia to Treacy in a few sentences. We may be priced out of the market for him so we go for Treacy…WTF. We have a bundle of cash to spend so we go from a French International to a player plying his trade in the lower leagues. This Steve Brown who wrote the article seems to know as much as the man on the corner of the street. Its like saying to the kids, if them sweeties are to expensive then your getting a plate full of sprouts instead lol.

apperently according to the star matuidi has told wenger he wants to go to arsenal,, y the f**k duz him n gervinho wanna go there they must be deluded to think there gunna get 1st team football, gervinho wont be ahed of walcott, nasri, arshavin, n matuidi wont be ahead of song, ramsey, wilshere, diaby just stupid,, if matuidi goes there we shud try n get song or ramsey like

N’Zogbia to Treacy – Expect the latter to be our new signing !! Just like Gameiro at 10 million to Erdinc at 5 – a big drop in class but the regime can say they tried for top targets.

Also Forster , let him go i have watched Celtic a canny few times this season and ive never seen him make a top draw save unlike Krul has this season. He never has anything positive about staaying at the toon and it was the same when he went to Norwich he wanted to go there. Me thinks he is a geordie but supports someone else

Harps is old, slow to come for the ball and is often undecisive which cost us a few times last season. I feel for harps cos he has been so loyal but fact is he’s not that good anymore. Krul has 2 full international caps one of which a 0-0 against Brazil. How many caps has Harps?

Pardew and the rest of the coaching staff need to push all 3 GK’s during pre-season. My one concern with Harper is fitness. I’d be guiding Harper into a GK coaching role with the club but expect he may well be the one who ends up getting shipped out by the end of the transfer window. There would be plenty of takers out there!

dmac the only reason harps has no caps is because he was loyal n sat on the bench,, he was good enuf to be david seamans england replacement but he never got piked for us over possibly the best ever prem goalie

Im not denying that. And It great to see someone be so loyal. I’d love to see him retire here but i dont feel he is good enough now to be number 1. In the past few years england have had james,carson,green,robinson and Hart surely Harps if he was good enough could have squeezed a cap or two amongst the shite before Hart?

my criticism of Forster is that he is very slow getting his huge frame down to ground shots and for free kicks he goes down in installments. Shame really as usually you like a tall goalie to give the defense confidence.

Krul is my choice for No. 1 next season. Be a battle between Forster and Harper for the seat on the bench. If Harps gets it, send Forster out on loan to West Brom, with them losing Carson. If Forster, sell Harper to them.

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I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in February 2017 and completed four months of chemotherapy in late July and will continue to have hormone treatment.

After having various cat scans and a full bone scan recently, I met with the medical oncologist yesterday for a review of my condition.

The cancer in the bones has stabilized and has not spread further, and my PSA count has decreased significantly to being less than 0.1.

I am still recovering from some of the side effects of the chemo treatment - mainly severe fatigue and exhaustion.

Stage 4 cancer is not curable so I will continue to have cat scans and bone scans every four months to ensure the disease is not spreading.

Hopefully, the hormone treatment will keep working for a while yet and then we will switch to some other treatments that have been developed over the last few years.

It is as it is - I accept it - and will do the very best I can under the circumstances.

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